# They're coming! They're coming! THE RADIOACTIVE RABBITS ARE LOOOOSSSEEE! Newsllink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968 "2010-11-08T22:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/1 "2010-11-08T22:48:05Z")
I-say-I-say-I-say old chap? Have you heard about the radioactive rabbits? Seems they are, as one might remark, GOING TO KILL US ALL! KILL US ALL! KILL US ALL! [http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/11/05/1238751/radioactive-rabbit-trapped-near.html](http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/11/05/1238751/radioactive-rabbit-trapped-near.html) > [@](#): > > The rabbit trapped at the 300 Area caught the Department of Health’s attention because it was close enough to the site’s boundaries to potentially come in contact with the public – such as if it had been caught by a dog or if its droppings were deposited in an area open to the public. > Liquid waste with radioactive salts was discharged into the ground near central Hanford during the Cold War. Rabbits and other animals were attracted to the salts and spread radioactive droppings across as much as 13.7 square miles of sage-covered land before the waste sites were sealed to keep out animals in 1969. Well, **no** , they **won’t** kill us **all**. Most, just you. 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/2 "2010-11-08T23:01:15Z")
They still do radioactive tumbleweed roundups every year. The joys of Hanford. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/3 "2010-11-09T01:07:32Z")
Rabbit sense tingling… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/4 "2010-11-09T02:08:13Z")
This has got to be some sort of Devilbunny plot. [sub]They are so _blatant!_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/5 "2010-11-09T03:05:55Z")
[It’s happened before](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xulXFB3-A3c), it can happen again. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/6 "2010-11-09T03:06:30Z")
Hmmm…what would a mutant radioactive rabbit in America be like? [Oh, Ida know…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fitDdofYTFY&feature=fvst) …and if a mutant bunny loved a beautiful woman, [how would it end?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K_bnr5iXDk) ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/7 "2010-11-09T08:12:11Z")
Ta dah! ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/8 "2010-11-09T08:21:24Z")
_excellent_, this way ma’am. we will need to take your stool sample for analysis. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/9 "2010-11-09T08:35:11Z")
What if the mate with the [hot frogs of Tennessee](http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-04/news/mn-401_1_leopard-frogs)? Long-eared frogs with cotton tails! Bunnies sticking to walls with long, sticky tongues! The horror! The horror! ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/10 "2010-11-09T17:25:06Z")
He’s got huge, sharp… er… He can leap about… Look at the bones! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/11 "2010-11-09T17:46:23Z")
Damn! Where’s Dr. McCoy when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/12 "2010-11-09T17:55:25Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > _excellent_, this way ma’am. we will need to take your stool sample for analysis. What’re ya doin’ messin’ with her furniture? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/13 "2010-11-09T22:31:55Z")
I, for one, welcome our new glowing furry overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/14 "2010-11-10T19:19:17Z")
What’s worse is this little bit of info near the bottom of the article: > [@](#): > > In a more recent case, so many radioactive wasp nests were found spread across six acres by H Reactor in northern Hanford that up to a foot of soil was dug up to remove the nests. > > The nests were built by mud dauber wasps in 2003. Water was sprayed to control dust during demolition of a basin attached to the reactor, and the mud created was collected by the wasps to build nests under straw that had been spread nearby to protect newly planted sagebrush seedlings. My waspy sense is tingling! ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/15 "2010-11-10T20:53:01Z")
My plan is that eventually my cute n fluffy glowing minions will take over the world - shedding their radioactive fur all over everyone’s furniture, taking radioactive nibbles out of everything accessible, leaving “presents” in your chocolate coated sultanas with that extra radioactive zing. With our cute and fluffiness we are strong - with radiative powers WE ARE UNDEFEATABLE. MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAA HA HA nibble nibble twitch twitch. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-coming-theyre-coming-the-radioactive-rabbits-are-loooossseee-newsllink/559968/16 "2010-11-10T22:30:50Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > My plan is that eventually my cute n fluffy glowing minions will take over the world - shedding their radioactive fur all over everyone’s furniture, taking radioactive nibbles out of everything accessible, leaving “presents” in your chocolate coated sultanas with that extra radioactive zing. > > With our cute and fluffiness we are strong - with radiative powers WE ARE UNDEFEATABLE. > MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAA HA HA nibble nibble twitch twitch. Let me introduce you to my lead-lined cat.